Compression rates of microbial genomes are associated with genome size and base composition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To what degree a string of symbols can be compressed reveals important details about its complexity. For instance, strings that are not compressible are random and carry a low information potential while the opposite is true for highly compressible strings. We explore to what extent microbial genomes are amenable to compression as they vary considerably both with respect to size and base composition. For instance, microbial genome sizes vary from less than 100,000 base pairs in symbionts to more than 10 million in soil-dwellers. Genomic base composition, often summarized as genomic AT or GC content due to the similar frequencies of adenine and thymine on one hand and cytosine and guanine on the other, also vary substantially; the most extreme microbes can have genomes wi

SUBMITTER: Bohlin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11468749 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature